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You can skim those stage directions and go right to the dialogue. You can almost read the movie in the same amount of time it will take you to see the movie.

William H. Macy

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William H. Macy
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: March 13
Actor
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Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
Screenwriter
Stage Actor
Teacher
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Miami
Florida
William Hall Macy
William Hall Macy Jr.
William Macy
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One's complete sentences are attempts, as often as not, to complete an incomplete self with words.
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So much of the violence in the movies is b.s. violence: A guy in the middle of a large city with 14 people lying on the ground that he's just killed with his superhuman powers, and there's not a cop to be found. Not a siren to be heard. No price to be paid. That's not true, and I don't like that sort of stuff.
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At the end of the day, what actors really want to do is act a lot and not wait around in the trailer.
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I got an agent. He said, what do you wanna do, and I said, I want an Oscar nomination. That's your job, that's what I'm paying you for. And I got it.
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I loved Batman, don't get me wrong, but that kind of mindless violence is not good for young children.
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Stephen King writes a lot of things that are really charming and quirky, and that are more ironic than horror.
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Oh yeah, that's the Holy Grail, Pirates of the Caribbean. Johnny Depp, he's the real deal, isn't he? He doesn't get the girl, and he doesn't care.
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I think theater is powerful. The best experiences I had in the theater are more powerful than the best experiences I had in movies.
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Ultimately, a more experienced director realizes that you've got to stop sometime and just move on. They're braver about that.
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Emotions are the natural result of striving for something. Every single scene has two or more people in it, and nobody wants the same thing, so they are negotiating this one way or another. The result of that negotiation will bring out all kinds of emotional stuff in you.
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Women, in order to recharge their batteries, gather in groups. They can recharge their batteries with their sisters. I tend to recharge my batteries in solitude, therefore the motorcycle trips. I need to be alone. As a matter of fact, I have to be careful. I could turn into a hermit.
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I'm not much of a preparer. I think sometimes as an actor you need to go out and learn some skills, but in terms of preparation for understanding the character, it's all on the page, and if it's not on the page, you're in trouble.
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I'm getting bigger roles, and I'm on location more, and I have a wife and family. I'd rather work less, and I've started to implement that. It was either that or my wife would break my heart.
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Here are the good things about independent films: They do the more interesting, chancy scripts. They're run by love.
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It sure is boring to be around people who are in character all the time. I always find it's closer to mental illness than acting excellence.
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There are statistics out that say 20 year olds, 18 years olds think about sex 90 percent of the time. They only don't think about sex when they're eating, and that's rare.
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We always want to see people strive and see the human spirit triumph against adversity. That's what it's all about because that's what we're doing. We're trying to triumph in our lives.
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That red carpet has to be felt to be believed.
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We, in America, are so screwed up when it comes to sex. That's all we can see.
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Writers love to write those idiotic, long stage directions, and some of them worse than others. They have nothing to do with the movie. They're just jerking around.
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